78 Quotes by jayne mansfield

If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.

I've been identified with pink throughout my career, but I'm not as crazy about it as I've led people to believe. My favorite colors are actually neutrals — black and white — but then who thinks of a movie queen in black and white? Everything has to be in living color.

A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.

Every star knows you step on some toes to get where you're going - and some more after you get there. Nobody means to hurt anybody else, it just happens. You always keep saying in the back of your mind that one day you will be able to right all the wrongs. That someday almost never comes.

I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I've never accepted anything I haven't earned.

I've got the strangest build. It's big in the hips, small in the waist and I've got these enormous ... shoulders.

Sex appeal is a wonderful, warm, womanly healthy feeling . . . it comes only from inside, it's from nothing that's manufactured. It has nothing to do with measurements or lipstick color. To me, it's cleanliness, and youth, an effervescent desire to enjoy life.

I'll have to have a palace, of course. I may not be a princess, but I am a movie queen, and every queen should have a palace.

I don't want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn't say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.